By Evan Conaway WWWoronin/ Shutterstock The Vaporum is a high-end smoking club in the bright lights of Buckhead City, the kind of place where rich trendsetters can come in for a few dozen cigarettes and only worry about… Continue Reading
By Lamont A. Turner lazyllama/ Shutterstock I’d been to the States before, twice actually, but that had been to the bucolic fields of the Midwest and the quaint seaside villages of New England. Nothing in my… Continue Reading
By Keigh Ahr Ociacia/ Shutterstock Booker read the text message from his boss: Hi! Please stop by my office at 2:30. Have a great shift! The 22-year-old employee of Daybreak Market realized he was about to get fired,… Continue Reading
By Mark Harbinger Vicente Garces Custode/ Shutterstock A small, fair-skinned man minded his own business seated in a moist grove under a tree that was adorned by a family of bonobos. This man’s skin would’ve glistened under the… Continue Reading
By Paul O’Neill Birute Vijeikiene/ Shutterstock Rain drums the roof of my car as I try to unscramble my thoughts, get my game face on. I’m sitting in my car outside my house. Vodka oozes out my pores… Continue Reading
By Nicole Walsh GogOfVector, Shutterstock “If she’s screaming like that, she’s being eaten.” “You don’t know that, Marten.” Marten Grimshadow gave Sally Siren a glare across his knee. Grimshadow’s tall angular body was folded into a remarkably small… Continue Reading
By Simon Berry Jurgita Batuleviciene/shutterstock Satisfied I’d gathered all the dead leaves and twigs into a neat pile, I swept them into the Lane Crawford tote bag. The weeds poking their way through the cracked concrete around the… Continue Reading
By Michael Fowler LedyX/ Shutterstock Alma: We do not all die alike. Alfred, who oversees the refrigerated body lockers on the graveyard shift, props open the rear door and tells us deceased ones he’s letting us out this… Continue Reading
By Isabel Yacura IG Digital Arts/ Shutterstock “We can take him.” The voice was confident and bright, albeit a little thin, twanged out over the vowels. “I highly doubt that,” Burges said, condescending and amused enough that Colin… Continue Reading
By Harold Hoss Vadim Sadovski/ shutterstock Solomon gently closed the bedroom door. He lingered for a moment just past the threshold, staring straight ahead. He’d shared this bedroom with his wife Nicole for twelve years, and yet this… Continue Reading